Saved

Saved is probably most critical song on the album. It is my direct response to the often flouted claim that I am needing salvation and if I refuse, must face the punishment of hell. This song also challenges the blindly accepted belief in the divine origins of a particular religion’s dogma and it’s supposed moral superiority.

Song Lyrics

Say that i need to be saved
Say with me the devils got his way
I want to know how when you are praying
And when you are dooms-daying
How you think you know that someone is listening to what you are saying

So you think that you
Can tell us how to live our lives
Never questioning the source from which your moral code derives
You think that suffering is part of some great plan that’s been devised
I wonder, I wonder
When we’ll be rid of your lies

Say I need to hear the truth
A sales-pitch of eternal life and eternal youth
All these blessings you are bestowing
Upon the one you say is all-knowing
Are they really deserved if ‘He’ is sending me where you say I am going?

So you think that you
Can tell us how to live our lives
Never questioning the source from which your moral code derives
You think that suffering is part of some great plan that’s been devised
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder

What will it take for you
To start opening your eyes
To start questioning the bullshit everyone around you buys
You think it’s any of your business what goes on between my thighs?
I wonder, I wonder,
When we’ll be rid of your lies

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41 Comments

Thank you for this wonderfully pointed rebuttal of the “saved” fantasies.
I suspect that their lies will become more and more obvious with time. Thank you for being part of exposing their fraud.
Write on!

Hello, I won’t use paypal due to past problems with them. I want to buy your atheist album. I tried from bandcamp but got a paypal only option. I would love to buy this album plus an mps of your song “my word” Please let me know of an alternate way to support you.

Hi Eric,
Thanks heaps for the support. You can buy ‘An Atheist Album’ from Itunes or Amazon. ‘My Word’ is yet to be released. It will be on my upcoming album, ‘Little March’ which will be available next month. x

I absolutely love you calling out ridiculous beliefs with such a beautiful song. Whenever I fell depressed at all, your music instantly cheers me up. And I can never get enough of hearing you on Ardent Atheist. Keep up the great work!

Girl, sorry if you have been offended by someone who has a different kind of faith that you.
But there is no need to rebuke people in a song.
For the record, you don’t need to be saved neither do I. It is not a “need”.
I won’t buy an album called “A religious album” and I won’t certainly to buy “An Atheist Album”. This world is dying for so many making divisions and hating each other. Your album is just contributing to that disaster.
When you grow up, maybe you will learn.
We are ONE. not need for labels.
Stop using the label machine.
Peace,
Guxt

Boy,
Sorry if you’ve been offended by my music.
My song is an expressive response to what a preacher literally said to me in the street and those who agree with him. I’m glad you don’t agree with him.
An Atheist Album is also a chance for people who normally think atheists are demons, to see that actually they can be positive creative people as well. My goal was to share an atheist perspective and also to create music that people who share my views can relate to. It dosn’t sound like you listened to the whole album…
Maybe when you grow up, you will understand that everybody deserves a voice.
Peace,
Shelley

@Guxt:
Excuse me, but you seem to be confused. Religious ignorance, fantasies, and aggression are a daily fixture in any national or international newspaper which I read.
Suicide bombs and killing of homosexuals or non-cooperative women are frequent in the Islamic world, or hadn’t you heard? In my own country, climate science, civil rights, and medical research have been seriously impinged by Christian ignorance.
Kindly remove your rose-tinged glasses and observe the world as it really is, not as it is in your imagination.
For a truly eye-opening experiment, travel to Kabul and share your ideas with your brothers there. You will quickly discover just how empty and hollow your multi-culti liberal bullshit truly is, jerk.
Shelley is beautifully expressing what a great many people have been thinking and feeling for quite some time.

Guxt, I live in an Islamic republic. It’s hell. Religion is a curse. Our basic freedoms are curbed in the name of religion, and law-making is based on a medieval ideology. Come there someday and see for yourself how horrific the Abrahamic tradition is. Maybe this way you will grow up.

Shelley, great work! Keep it up. I am currently visiting Melbourne and leaving for my country in a couple of days. Will try to come to your gig at Bennett’s Lane tomorrow.

Guxt, it takes a flaming idiot to think you will get anywhere with such an obviously intelligent woman by addressing her as “Girl” – show her respect! While you’re at it, you may want to seriously re-evaluate how you treat any life on this planet, including your own.

Religion such as Christianity and Islam are so disrespectful and disparaging of this only proven life-supporting world and the only plausible life which we have, that it’s not surprising to see those who follow these old death-cults. Having grown up among the morons for Jesus, I have seen firsthand just how hateful and blunt you people really are. While it’s almost unsurprising that you haven’t the good sense to be respectful away from your home camp, I advise you to do so if you want anything you say to be taken seriously.

Extremely late reply, but others will read this for the first time, just as I have now.

People like you are the problem. You don’t seem to have an issue with the religious people who tell us that we will be tortured forever. No, you only have a problem with us when we push back, even a little. I don’t accept that ridiculous stance, and I never will. Shelley has every right and reason to put out her music. The problem isn’t with her response, it is with the offensive message she is responding to.

Guxt, you are basically telling someone who is a minority (as Atheists are) to just shut up in the face of oppression and ignorance and to live in some fantasyland that we are all ‘one’. You sound very, very naive.

Hi!
I’ve heard your song at the Atheist Experience and i’m happy you allowed them to use it as their intro song. Now that i know more about the lyrics and meaning of the song (I’m awful at clearly understanding sung lyrics “on the air” so lyrics are a big help always) I’m even more impressed. All power to you and don’t let the preachers of this world get you down.
FN

Great song! I remember hearing this as The Atheist Experience’s new intro music, seeing that you’d be coming to ReasonCon, looking up a random video, and realizing that it was the same song used on the show. It’s great that there’s good atheist music out there. Also, given that seemingly almost all songs are about either romance in some way or partying, it was satisfying to have lyrics worth listening to.

I also heard your song on the atheist experience. I bought your album and plan on buying more. It’s so fantastic after having religious rock and pop played everywhere in Kansas to been able to listen to great music with a worthwhile message.

Just remember Shelley that those who take offense at your outpouring of heartfelt love and compassion for music are those who have been indoctrinated and find it uncomfortable to come out and be free from the chains that they have become all too comfortable wearing. You speak truth and no one has the right to take that away form you. Don’t let them lessen your sharp tongued wit. You are wonderfully brave to sing of such “untouchable” subjects. And please we cannot get enough of you. Those who are offended by love and compassion are those who have never had them. There is too much hate in the world and you are a shining light that distinguishes that hate with every song you sing. Keep it up! We love you.